Soy & Cattle Deforestation Tracker & Scorecard Methodology 2024

The document details the methodology for tracking deforestation and scoring the corporate responses of ten major soy and cattle companies in Brazil. It describes a Tracker based on 172 cases of deforestation and conversion across the Amazon, Cerrado, and Pantanal biomes, and a Scorecard that evaluates companies on responsiveness, transparency, action, and the robustness of their Deforestation- and Conversion-Free (DCF) policies.

• The Soy & Cattle Deforestation Tracker utilizes a dataset of 172 deforestation cases, representing over 300,000 hectares of deforestation and conversion within Brazil's Pantanal, Cerrado, and Amazon biomes.
• The Monitor tracks seven major soy exporters in Brazil: ADM, Amaggi, Bunge, Cargill, COFCO International, LDC, and the ALZ joint venture (comprising Amaggi, LDC, and Zen-Noh), as well as the three largest meatpacking exporters: JBS, Marfrig, and Minerva.
• The Company Scorecard evaluates ten companies on a 100-point scale across four categories: Responsiveness, Transparency, Action, and Deforestation and Conversion-Free (DCF) Policy, with the first three categories each worth up to 10 points.
• The 'Action' scoring category assesses whether companies' internal monitoring systems detected deforestation, if they blocked or suspended the supplier, if they added the supplier to a public blocked list, or if they implemented remediation or restoration actions.
• The methodology for DCF Policy scoring encourages a global target date of 31 December 2024 or 1 January 2025 and specific cut-off dates for the Amazon: July 2008 for soy and October 2009 for cattle.
• The scoring methodology is mapped to the Accountability Framework initiative (AFi) core principles, including supply chain assessment, traceability, and the protection of forests and natural ecosystems.

APA

Mighty Earth (2024). Soy & Cattle Deforestation Tracker & Scorecard Methodology 2024. https://soyandcattlemonitor.mightyearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Soy-Cattle-Tracker-Scorecard-Methodology-2024_Final.pdf

Chicago

Mighty Earth. Soy & Cattle Deforestation Tracker & Scorecard Methodology 2024. 2024. https://soyandcattlemonitor.mightyearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Soy-Cattle-Tracker-Scorecard-Methodology-2024_Final.pdf.

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BibTeX

@techreport{mightyearth2024soy, author = {{Mighty Earth}}, title = {{Soy \& Cattle Deforestation Tracker \& Scorecard Methodology 2024}}, institution = {Mighty Earth}, year = {2024}, url = {https://soyandcattlemonitor.mightyearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Soy-Cattle-Tracker-Scorecard-Methodology-2024_Final.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }